CVE-2019-12278

Published Mar 12, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 4.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing. Characters from several languages are displayed in Right-to-Left order, due to mishandling of several Unicode characters. The rendering mechanism, in conjunction with the "first strong character" concept, may improperly operate on a numerical IP address or an alphabetic string, leading to a spoofed URL.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-3919 Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing. Characters from several languages are displayed in Right-to-Left order, due to mishandling of several Unicode characters. The rendering mechanism, in conjunction with the "first strong character" concept, may improperly operate on a numerical IP address or an alphabetic string, leading to a spoofed URL.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:17 PM
Reserved
May 22, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 12, 2020, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:14 AM